Wages & Earnings
In October 2009 the Economic Council on Women released its second report on the wages and earnings of women in Tennessee. This report, The Economic Impact of Wages and Earnings for Tennessee Women, provides a history of wages, statistical analysis of the relationships between income, occupation and gender specifically in Tennessee, and ideas for closing the wage gap and providing economic stability.
In 2005, the Council delivered its first report on pay equity, written by then Council member and Ralph Owen Distinguished Professor of Economics Yasmeen Mohiuddin of the University of the South. The Gender Wage Gap provides an overview of the relationships between income, occupation, and gender, using national statistics.
An article by former Council Research Analyst Lauren Howard complements these more detailed glimpses into Tennessee’s pay equity by examining the general trends of women’s wage disparity. Published in a Middle Tennessee State University magazine on women’s issues, it constructs a case which supports the Equal Pay Remedies and Enforcement Act of 2004 and sets the stage for the Council’s work the following year.
Wage equity remains an issue upon which the Council remains focused, especially as legislation further addressing wage discrimination continues to be proposed in the Tennessee General Assembly.
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